Darwin and Berry Springs

We headed to Darwin to catch up with my uncle, he lives in Berry Springs and works in the Territory Wildlife Park nearby. The visit was perfect timing to get a few things done. I updated my mobile plan to Telstra, finally I have reception more than 5 klm out of a major city! We had the van in for a wheel alignment as one of the tyres were scrubbing out. Topped up the lure box from fishing at Shady Camp and did some shopping, We ended up staying a week. On the tech front I replaced all the fluoro and halogen lights in the van with LED lights we sourced from a mob here in Darwin. Saves heaps of power when you are living on 12V batteries. Hopefully money well spent.

We visited the city of Darwin and did a tour through some underground oil storage facilities they used during world war II. Learnt allot about the bombing of Darwin throughout the city as there is monuments and historic places pointed out throughout the town. We also went to the Aviation Museum where they have a B-52 bomber in a hangar and heaps of WWII and Bombing of Darwin photos and movie footage in displays. Well worth the visit to that museum if you are up here.

Oil Storage Tunnel



B52 at the aviation museum.



While we were up here Tracey wanted to go to see the Mindil Beach Sunset Markets, they are on a Thursday night. We had a bite to eat as it's quite famous for the variety of Asian cuisine, my eyes were too big for my belly and ate too much. Delicious food and a cracka sunset to watch, a first for Tracey to see the sun set over the water. There will be many more of them to come as we head West.

Sunset at the markets.




We washed the car and van and headed to Litchfield National Park for a couple of days. We liked Darwin and have it on a short list of places to spend more time in. Let's face it, it's winter and the days are 30 degrees and we are going to swimming holes. Swimming in winter! Really easy to get work there as well. Don't know what the wet and the build-up to the wet would be like here though, like I said, it's on the short list.